Re: A slow query - Help please? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From hubert depesz lubaczewski
Subject Re: A slow query - Help please?
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Msg-id 9e4684ce0606170312g5a1107bah9c51ca8969d01cb@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: A slow query - Help please?  (Alban Hertroys <alban@magproductions.nl>)
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Re: A slow query - Help please?
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On 6/16/06, Alban Hertroys <alban@magproductions.nl> wrote:
We really need this solved. Isn't anybody able to shed some light on
this? Is it possible to make this query use an index scan, preferably
w/o disabling sequential scanning?

ditch the inheritance. it is no good, and makes everything too complicated to work with.

in case you can't, do something similar to this:

select * from
(
select * from only table_a  order by number desc limit 25
union
select * from only table_b  order by number desc limit 25
union
select * from only table_c  order by number desc limit 25
) x
order by number desc limit 25;

it should be faster. and yes, i know it's ugly.

depesz

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